Improvement in medical compounds for small-pox



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

-ALBERT HAWS, OF BATTLE 'MOUNTAIN STATION, NEVADA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,342, dated July 16, 1872.

- SPECIFICATION. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT HAWS, of Battle Mountain Station, Lander county, State of Nevada, have invented or discovered an Improved Medical Compound for the Treatment and Cure of Small-Pox and I do hereby declare that the following specification contains a correct statement of the names of the ingredients and the quantity of each to be used, together with directions for preparing and using the same.

My invention or discovery relates to a medical compound or powder for the treatment and cure of small-pox.

To make my compound, (which I will call No. 1,) I employ the following-named ingredients, in the proportions given: Saltpeter, one (1) ounce; gum camphor, one (1) dram; to which I add twelve (12) tea-spoonfuls of pulverized charcoal, the whole to be triturated in a mortar until thoroughly mixed.

The directions for use are as follows: For a single dose, take one tea-spoonful of the powder and dissolve it in a little water. Give to the patient once every hour for twelve hours, after which reduce the dose to half that amount for the following twelve hours. Then take black cohosh, one (1) ounce, and steep well in one pint of water, and commence giving to the patient, after the first twelve hours, in doses of a table-spoonful every three hours. (This I will call No. 2.) After six hours (or two doses) increase the dose to two table-spoonfuls. The

patient should be kept under its influence un- 'ALBERT HAWS. [n 8.]

Witnesses:

JNo. W. MGWILLIAM, J. A. BLossoM. 

